How many baby Eastern rock elephant shrews are in a litter?
A Eastern rock elephant shrew (Elephantulus myurus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 52 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macroscelididae family (genus: Elephantulus). An adult Eastern rock elephant shrew grows up to a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The eastern rock elephant shrew or eastern rock sengi (Elephantulus myurus) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found in Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland and rocky areas.
Other animals of the family Macroscelididae
Eastern rock elephant shrew is a member of the Macroscelididae, as are these animals:
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Checkered elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali elephant shrew weighting only 32 grams
- North African elephant shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew weighting only 57 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern rock elephant shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Roan antelope
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat
- Sitatunga
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Campbell’s mona monkey
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Black bearded saki
- Preuss’s red colobus
Animals that get as old as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.08 years:
- Cotton mouse with 1.25 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with 1 years
- Wood lemming with 1 years
- Myosorex varius with 1 years
- Meadow vole with 0.92 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with 1 years
- Crowned shrew with 1.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
What other animals weight around 59 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Palmer’s chipmunk weighting 60 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus weighting 61 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse weighting 60 grams
- Balkan mole weighting 70 grams
- South African pouched mouse weighting 50 grams
- Cape York melomys weighting 70 grams
- Flat-headed vole weighting 50 grams
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat weighting 59 grams
- Handleyomys melanotis weighting 50 grams
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse weighting 54 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern rock elephant shrew
Also reaching around 12.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gunning’s golden mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Uinta chipmunk gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)